Green Building Companies in DeWitt

“We've hired this company twice. The first time was an insurance-covered repair to our garage roof. The company was prompt, gave a detailed estimate of costs, worked well with our insurance company, and did quality work. Several months after the job was completed, they returned at our request to replace some materials that were warping. Our second project was to fix a leak in our roof and install a skylight. Again, very prompt, courteous service and they made sure the work was completely satisfactory before they departed.”

“I used MLN Builders to tearout, rebuild and expand my wooden deck. We used Trex. The results are fabulous! Work was timely and neat. Workers cleaned up the site every night. We had extra Trex left and MLN suggested adding benches. What a great idea I had not considered! Love the results! It transformed my backyard. I live out there in the summer.”

“Dexter Builders remodled my home by adding a master bedroom and bath plus reconfiguring an existing powder room and office. Every detail from begining to end was attended to promptly. The excellent quality was just what I wanted and it was even exceeded. I really enjoyed workiing with the owners and their crews. This is a happy home.”

“We recently had a detached garage built and Bob with Fireside Home Construction was our builder. The entire building experience went so smoothly because of Bobs attention to detail. He communicated with us at every step of the way so we always knew who was doing what when. He respected our property by always making sure the job site was clean and safe. The crews he hired were equally respectful. We highly recommend Bob the Builder for any of your construction projects.”

“I hired the BC crew to build a platform deck at my front door. I provided design ideas and they followed them and improved the project. The job was completed within a reasonable time frame and the clean up was well done. The next year I hired BC to put a metal roof on my house and garage. I also wanted gutter guards put on. This was a big project which Todd and his partner completed well within budget. The work was again way above average and the clean up was complete. This is a fine company to have just about any project completed for you.”

“Keith is the brother or father you wish you had in the construction business! His initial estimates are reasonable ones, so he won't be coming back through the project asking for extra money he should have anticipated. The quality of his thinking and pre-planning the details for our projects was better than other contractors who charged more and eventually delivered poorer results. He's very responsive to owner's concerns & he spotted any details not up to his standards before we could open our mouths to point them out. The workers he brought to our house were good ones that did not make us feel concerned for our safety or anything else. Although he has sifted the suppliers he deals with over time to the most responsible ones, he is also willing to pursue items or suppliers the homeowner wants to see which is a better choice. As a small company, it is not always possible for him to be the fastest on every project despite rain or delivery delays, but the end result was always worth any wait. In 2006 (our first project together) we hired Keith from 3 "moderately-priced contractors" recommended by the architect: Keith tore off the top of our 1950s detached garage, raised the walls to match house height, created great storage space under a roof pitched to match the house's and a connecting roof between buildings, re-sided the garage & sunny half of house with Hardie® board & battens to match original, adding insulation too, along with matching copper gutters & matching aluminum-clad overhand trellis work properly topped with copper for a seamless look. The long driveway & turnaround were completely rebuilt with proper slope away from garage & house, which required re-doing the adjacent front lawn & flagstone path and a November search for large white limestone blocks (for stairs where there had already been a too-steep path) to match the original stone porch & steps from a now-closed quarry. More recently, he repaired an original shower stall built by Italian craftsmen (without damaging tiles of shore birds hand-painted by the original owner Genevieve Gillette, ASLA the first woman landscape architect in Michigan and first inductee in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her life's work in discovering, obtaining, and raising funds for local, state, & federal parks; and without destroying the irreplaceable original mosaic shower floor that matches the room's floor); installed a shower venting fan & repaired plaster ceiling; installed a granite countertop & light fixture that made the small space function better & look great, and touched up paint dinged in the work process. His work saved us an historic loss at less than 1/3 of replacement costs. Keith also went above & beyond his duty restoring the clear finish on original white oak window trim & large overmantle in living room that had been corrupted by some undiscoverable substance which caused it to repel several rounds of sanding and varnishing. In 2011 following our ideas, he completely remodeled our pass-through laundry/mechanical room for $17k. This included grinding & leveling the concrete floor damaged by a previous owner's remodeling; repairing an exterior wall surface, creating cupboards to match the existing original 1950s one to enclose all the mechanical devices while maintaining easy access, plus additional pantry storage; correcting decades of convoluted plumbing (and restoring a disappeared outdoor faucet with one having hot & cold water) & wiring (while adding a whole-house surge protector), adding functional lighting, outlets, & switches, spray painting the open ceiling to maintain accessibility for the final few remodeling projects, substituting a double stainless steel laundry sink for the non-original single fiberglass one (installing it perfectly centered on window), new laundry appliances, stainless counter tops designed to move for access to plumbing, hanging an expensive but slightly out-of-square mirrored rack so it looks right, etc. The most memorable moment of this project came on the initial half-day of demolition: While Keith & his brother were packing up to leave, we all noticed that the window well was filling with water & starting to cascade into the room under the 1950s Pella® casement window. First we all jumped to turn off water valves; next the men were outside in the window well trying to unclog its drain to avoid the window glass shattering. Another company quickly snaked the entire perimeter drain system. Neither Keith nor his brother would leave me alone until everything was put right indoors and plans to correct the problem the very next workday were in place. [FYI: As with all "accidents", this one required the coming together of several factors: Screen over window well's drain dislodged recently by some small animal allowing pipe to fill with debris; drain pipe for water softener not installed to code by previous owner but dumping into a window well; several days of Spring rain; the water softener's scheduled "refresh" discharge at 2 a.m. that day, further saturating the soil; and--finally--the "refresh" button bumped during the morning's demolition adding another tankful to the situation.] In 2012 Keith repaired some structural and fascia wood rotting on the original portion of deck and some cedar decking pieces rotting because that contractor had not allowed for cedar to shrink less than treated pine. When there's another project here, we'll wait for Keith Gipfert to be available to work with us.”